Re: [poky] Creating a hash of a password for my recipe to add a user

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https://github.com/YoeDistro/yoe-distro/blob/master/sources/meta-yoe/recipes-core/images/yoe-simple-image.bb#L37-L50

On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 4:42 PM John via lists.yoctoproject.org
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> I tried the extrausers class and I didn't get any errors but I also got no joy. Nothing was created on the target and I moved onto using the adduser example from the meta-skeleton directories. I have joy now, the additional user is created and I can see the user's home directory various entries required in all of the relevant files. yay!
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> However I have this line in my recipe (ignore the underline):
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> NEWGUY_PASSWORD = "\$6\$zap5cUSDzKQyKfmL\$g8RRKqDw8U9BlmQFO2GLDPvcGe5mWSnwhMtYbDeKpPEDULJ2yLUhI6oHP4xq/p7fbE2SftFy4bvPd.ZsHVS55."
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> I then have this to set the parameters for the added user:
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> USERADD_PARAM:${PN} = " -d /home/newguy \
>                         -m \
>                         -G tty,audio \
>                         -p ${NEWGUY_PASSWORD} \
>                         -U newguy \
>                       "
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> I can't login to the board using the password I created using the command:
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> mkpasswd -m sha512crypt <yeah right... nice try>
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> I escaped the character '$' as you can see and cut & pasted it to my recipe file. When I boot the board, I can't login using those credentials (login via ssh). I then login via the root account and here is what I find in the "/etc/shadow" file:
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> newguy:/p7fbE2SftFy4bvPd.ZsHVS55.:15069:0:99999:7:::
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> Now I presume the actual hash is the part that I've underlined and I guess the rest is the SALT(?). Is there some other thing I have to do to the hash to make it usable by the login application?
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> Thanks in advance for any advice.
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> Cheers!!
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